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[]M[]

Trouble is, those LEDs inhale battery power. So IMO a wireless RGB keyboard is kind of contradictory - sure, you can run it wireless for the keyboard part, but you'll need to (hyperbole incoming) keep it hooked up to some power supply for the RGB (or otherwise LED) part.
My opinion now: as wirelss keyboards with good switches tend to be hard to come by - and especially for gaming, I'd imagine people would like to keep the input lag a small as possible, go for a good wired keyboard with decent switches. I don't game kb+m, but for other uses, the favourite from my arsenal is a Sharkoon PureWriter. TKL, good switches, good service. OFC, you can also (by now) get a keyboard that (on paper) looks basically identical (TKL, alu front plate, Kailh low profile switches) from Logitech - at three times the price...

That's good to know - tbh i'm quite happy with wired KB as it doesn't move about much in-game, but i am seriously thinking of playing with a wireless mouse once again... atm i'm using a fairly basic "mech-dome" Logitech with RGB, after too much enthusiasm with the space bar sent my old mechanical KB into early retirement - now eyeing a full-size wired ADATA with RGB and Cherry RED / Silver options, which comes at a very good price, about half the equivalent Logitech. Never tried their KB's before, but my experience with their drive cases, power banks and other bits & pieces has been very good.

Sharkoon are a very good value brand too, at least in my experience with an M20 mouse that was bought more for backup / an alternate smaller mouse - it ended up being my main FPS mouse for at least 5 years as i really liked the smaller but not too small size for fast-paced stuff...


...meanwhile i have been on a vegetable quest once again as i tend to do on Sundays - the hills are alive with blazing Fungoida!

 

[D3coy Commander]

How that? Deciat to Maia is 390 ly. An unegnineered long-range Hauler does 27 ly empty and 25 ly loaded with 2 MAs. That's 15 jumps out if you're in a hurry, and 16 jumps back.
Of course, you could also do the trip (one way) in 81 jumps - and make 75 MCr. from it scanning high value planets more or less along the route with the road to riches.

I think the GalMap may default to "economical" routing. If that's the case, switch it to "fastest" routing to save on quite a few jumps. If you're already at "fastest", get a better (A-rated) FSD - and, for those trips, possibly a long jumping ship (cheapest of these is the Hauler).

As for the storage: you do have materials storage. Those are the things like Iron (or Imperial Shielding, or Datamined Wake Exceptions) you can pick up, but can't buy or sell. What you don't have (at first) is commodities storage - things you can sell or buy (or steal, or jettison). You get that when you buy a fleet carrier.

You need to do something different here. It should not take so many jumps unless your ship has a tiny jump range (like 8LY or such).

Perhaps you have the galaxy map router set to "Economical" instead of "Fastest"?

If your ship really does have a tiny jump range, you can increase it by getting an A-rated FSD, and D-rating most other stuff. Or use a 'taxi' ship like a cheap Hauler set up for travel, then have your slow ship shipped to a nearby station.

Don't bother with the techbroker hull reinforcements that need meta alloys. It's better to engineer human hull reinforcements. You can buy meta alloys from fleet carriers in the bubble for just under 2 million each.
Something is wrong with your ship and outfitting to need this many jumps even to get to Maia. Or you are using economy mode route plotting when you need fastest route.

..... I wish I had came on to the forum before I made the trips... lol.
Didn't know there was a different map setting, so ended up doing it all the hard way!
I was parked out in LP 580-33 because it had Couriers for sale there so once I got it, I flew from LP 580-33 to Maia, think it was 53 jumps, then from Maia to Deciat at 63 jumps. Had to break it up into quarter trips, 15 jumps, off for a break, come back, another 15, rinse and repeat.

Now to go change the map settings so I don't have to go through that again. Thanks for the heads up or I would have had to suffer for the next 2 weeks at least!

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

..... I wish I had came on to the forum before I made the trips... lol.
Didn't know there was a different map setting, so ended up doing it all the hard way!
I was parked out in LP 580-33 because it had Couriers for sale there so once I got it, I flew from LP 580-33 to Maia, think it was 53 jumps, then from Maia to Deciat at 63 jumps. Had to break it up into quarter trips, 15 jumps, off for a break, come back, another 15, rinse and repeat.

Now to go change the map settings so I don't have to go through that again. Thanks for the heads up or I would have had to suffer for the next 2 weeks at least!

Imperial Couriers are huge fun. Felicity Farseer sells Enhanced Performance Thrusters available up to size class 3 - so only for small ships. Buy 3A for the Courier. Then engineer them with dirty tuning and 'drive distrubutirs' (drag effect best for heavier ships). Felicity can do grade 3 dirty tuning on thrusters. Prof Palin does grade 5. Then your Courier built to be low mass can boost to 851m/s and still carry some useful kit like collector limpets and some cargo rack space. The speed is insane

 

[aRJay]

My kb+m are pretty basic Logitech wireless affairs that came bundled.

The keyboard has had a good life but the A on the a key has now rubbed off. It doesn't have any lights either so I use a small program called "Tray Status" that gives indication of numand or caps lock.

I think it actually might be time for some peripherals update. I do fancy an RGB keyboard but wireless ones are not that plentiful and quite expensive.

Not sure I want to go back to wires because of the aesthetic... snob? Moi? :,D

For the main kb&m aesthetics are a part of the package, but for the emergency backups a sub £10 set that use a couple of spare USB ports make sense to me.

If I was after a main keyboard I would be looking to see if you can still get one of those ones where each key was a miniature OLED screen that you could program to display what it did in the software running at the time. Assuming I was rich enough of course.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

drag effect best for heavier ships

Very useful information. Kinda explains why I preferred the distributors, so far...

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Regarding the input peripherals, my recent setup consists of a Sharkoon Skiller SGK4 keyboard and a MadCatz Rat8+ mouse, all on cable. As is my trusty XBox 360 gamepad. Had wireless Logitech hardware before (still have, actually, in form of my G 533 headset) and still think they are really good in the input lag department. My long time keyboard wasn't even a gaming keyboard but still was able to navigate me through countless hours in racing (and other) games (yes, before I got the controller, I used the keyboard for racing - arcade-y stuff like NfS or Flatout (1&2), but still needs some good reaction, there). It still works (in fact, my parents still use it to this day...), but I needed something with lit up keys as my room layout provides me with two options - either have it bright enough to find the keys on the board but be unable to make out what the heck the screen tries to tell me, or see what's going on on the screen but have to find the keys in the dark... And I felt like I could use some mechanical keys - I guess the domes of the old Logitech board are a little too worn for gaming, now...

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Besides, @Tyres O'Flaherty, if your Logitech KB&M came in a bundle, they should both hook up to the same dongle - unless they are about as old as my aforementioned KB...

 

[bugbait42]

I'm in Kepler's Crest region now and even though I'm almost 20,000 LY from Sol, the stars are so few and far between out here near the rim that most systems have already been discovered by other commanders. The one I'm in here was a first discovery for me though, so this high-metal planet with just two bio signals of Bacterium and Stratum Tectonicas is a first footfall for me as well so I'll be getting the big Vista bonus for it.

I also got a Codex - not that that's worth much money-wise in itself but at least I'll get my name in there as first to report this valuable Stratum in this sector.

 

[]M[]

Very useful information. Kinda explains why I preferred the distributors, so far...

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Regarding the input peripherals, my recent setup consists of a Sharkoon Skiller SGK4 keyboard and a MadCatz Rat8+ mouse, all on cable.

I have one of the more basic Ratz, the 2+ - it’s quite a nice, fast twitchy FPS mouse, small and light - but perhaps actually too small and light for me… i wish i could find a good back replacement for it to give it a bit more weight and a size i can rest my hand on more comfortably… it was a bit costly, even on sale imo - got it to try MadCatz out really, but for now i’m still mostly using my Logitech G402 - it has just about the right size and weight, not to mention number of programmable buttons, for the range of stuff i play mostly these days, from EDO mainly to a bit of FPS… also compliments the G213 KB & X52 quite nicely :]

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I have one of the more basic Ratz, the 2+ - it’s quite a nice, fast twitchy FPS mouse, small and light - but perhaps actually too small and light for me… i wish i could find a good back replacement for it to give it a bit more weight and a size i can rest my hand on more comfortably… it was a bit costly, even on sale imo - got it to try MadCatz out really, but for now i’m still mostly using my Logitech G402 - it has just about the right size and weight, not to mention number of programmable buttons, for the range of stuff i play mostly these days, from EDO mainly to a bit of FPS… also compliments the G213 KB & X52 quite nicely :]

I chose the Rat 8+ for just the same reasons. It has some extra weights, different attachments (backplate, sideplates) to adjust the size for larger hands. It is as fast as you want it to be and has an aiming button on one side. This button reduces the speed and increases the precision.

 

[]M[]

I chose the Rat 8+ for just the same reasons. It has some extra weights, different attachments (backplate, sideplates) to adjust the size for larger hands. It is as fast as you want it to be and has an aiming button on one side. This button reduces the speed and increases the precision.

I’ve always liked the idea of a “sniper” button (decreased dpi for finer aim down long sights, as you say) more than it’s turned out to actually be useful, ironically - mebbe the placement on the G402 is a bit awkward to be really fluid/intuitive to use tbh…

I find it’s not necessary in Odyssey on foot, even with the combat movement speed mod which makes ADS more fluid/responsive and is essential for using an Executioner or Aphelion properly in combat imo.

I like using the Rat in simpler / faster shooty stuff, though definitely prefer the G402 for Odyssey - perhaps i will still try a more full-featured one like yours if i see one on sale one day… though i think i really want a rat without a tail - the Razer Basilisk looks rather nice at a similar price :]

 

[bugbait42]

Frutexa Fera.

 

[]M[]

Another one that never made it back to Cartographics...?

...and some Osseus :]

 

[Zieman]

4 km high hill. Very bumpy up there, got frustrated trying to land and ended up driving SRV there from the surrounding plateau.
Frutexa Flammasis made me do it.

I think this I could call precision landing.
Bacterium Nebulus, 9 million Cr scan.

 

[Ashnak]

4 km high hill. Very bumpy up there, got frustrated trying to land and ended up driving SRV there from the surrounding plateau.

Care to share to location? There are a few crazy people who just might want to jump off it...

 

[Zieman]

Care to share to location? There are a few crazy people who just might want to jump off it...

Graea Hypue FN-R d5-383 12 h
Around 72.62, -44.39

 

[]M[]

Care to share to location? There are a few crazy people who just might want to jump off it...

That place i found above has quite nice valleys with plenty of cliffs - it might be good for races too... fairly wide valleys though, so more like a large rally of 50+ ships rather than 5-10 speedsters :]

 

[bugbait42]

I've reached Xibalba and am now very nearly 25,000 LY from Sol. This system was already discovered by another commander and is listed in the Wiki as there are Crystalline Shards here, on the moon I've landed on in the screenshot. Compared with other bios, they're not worth much but drop high-grade mats so if I find them (haven't found them so far) I'll top up with whatever I can while I'm here.

Xibalba is one of the outer rim regions and I'm in the only part that has any reachable stars, as explained in the Wiki:

"The region lies on the edge of the galaxy and is almost entirely devoid of stars. Most stars in Xibalba are concentrated in the region's south, which contains the tip of the Milky Way's Outer Arm. Just beyond that area is an isolated cluster of stars over 1,500 light-years in diameter that cannot be reached because of jump range limitations."

Xibalba

Xibalba is galactic region #37 in the Milky Way. It is bordered by Kepler's Crest, Achilles's Altar, Lyra's Song, and Tenebrae. The region lies on the edge of the galaxy and is almost entirely devoid of stars. Most stars in Xibalba are concentrated in the region's south, which contains the tip...

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

EDIT: Sorry, it's other systems listed in the Wiki, not this one. I found this one in the Codex entry for Crystalline Shards.

 

[]M[]

I've reached Xibalba and am now very nearly 25,000 LY from Sol. This system was already discovered by another commander and is listed in the Wiki as there are Crystalline Shards here, on the moon I've landed on in the screenshot. Compared with other bios, they're not worth much but drop high-grade mats so if I find them (haven't found them so far) I'll top up with whatever I can while I'm here.

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Xibalba is one of the outer rim regions and I'm in the only part that has any reachable stars, as explained in the Wiki:

"The region lies on the edge of the galaxy and is almost entirely devoid of stars. Most stars in Xibalba are concentrated in the region's south, which contains the tip of the Milky Way's Outer Arm. Just beyond that area is an isolated cluster of stars over 1,500 light-years in diameter that cannot be reached because of jump range limitations."

Xibalba

Xibalba is galactic region #37 in the Milky Way. It is bordered by Kepler's Crest, Achilles's Altar, Lyra's Song, and Tenebrae. The region lies on the edge of the galaxy and is almost entirely devoid of stars. Most stars in Xibalba are concentrated in the region's south, which contains the tip...

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

EDIT: Sorry, it's other systems listed in the Wiki, not this one. I found this one in the Codex entry for Crystalline Shards.

25000LY from Sol?

…be sure to get codex & pics of these:

Hypao Aed ZJ-A d0

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Location of Gyre Trees and Gyre Pods.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Aaaaand... back in the game...

Opted for this mouse: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XVWPV6T?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Just put it through its paces in a medium CZ to ensure all my binds were still in place for mouse control and to see it could cut the mustard. It could. Slightly heavier than the Logitech mouse I had but at least it doesn't freeze up like the old one - that was a bit awkward in a high CZ.

Time will tell!

My next purchase may well be the keyboard but I'm really finding it difficult to find one that balances functionality with price and has all the gizmoes I want.

Next up - high CZ ahoy.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Dangit. Caught me a bug this weekend...

 

[bugbait42]

25000LY from Sol?

…be sure to get codex & pics of these:

Hypao Aed ZJ-A d0

None

Location of Gyre Trees and Gyre Pods.

Aye, I did see those in the Wiki for this region before I left the Bubble and thought about going there. In fact, I bought a Research Limpet Controller before I left the bubble specifically for that. Only trouble is it's 6,000-odd LY from where I am right now and right out of my way, as I'm pretty much ready to head back to the bubble before I run out of Tritium, after I've finished exploring a few local systems in the Asp X around where my carrier is now.

However, I've targeted Eorgh Hypa RR-U c19-0 as a waypoint for my carrier on the way back, as it shows in the Codex for Kepler's Crest region as having Gyre Pods. (No Gyre trees though.) I don't have a Limpet Research thingy on the Asp X as no room for one, but might fit the one in my outfitting temporarily to my Anaconda, just to give that ship a bit of a run out when I get there.

As I mentioned earlier, this trip was an experiment to see how far I could get with only a total of 11,500 tons of Tritium in the hold and depot to see how the gradually improving fuel consumption as it's being used up might benefit the range of my carrier.